I Have a Biostar K8M800 MB with an AMD Athlon processor that I just built.
XP boots up perfectly and runs just fine, however, if I have my Microsoft
Webcam plugged into my USB port when I boot up the computer, The boot up
sequence gets as far as showing the Windows start up screen and never gets
any farther than that. If I unplug the webcam and reboot, everything is fine.

I can plug the webcam into the USB port once windows is running and I don't
have any problems. It's only at startup.

Any ideas as to what is causing this problem.

Re: Webcam stalls XP boot up by smlunatick

smlunatick
Mon May 05 07:09:41 PDT 2008

On May 4, 10:36=A0pm, gforce <gfo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I Have a Biostar K8M800 MB with an AMD Athlon processor that I just built.=
=A0
> XP boots up perfectly and runs just fine, however, if I have my Microsoft
> Webcam plugged into my USB port when I boot up the computer, The boot up
> sequence gets as far as showing the =A0Windows start up screen and never g=
ets
> any farther than that. =A0If I unplug the webcam and reboot, everything is=
fine.
>
> I can plug the webcam into the USB port once windows is running and I don'=
t
> have any problems. =A0It's only at startup.
>
> Any ideas as to what is causing this problem.

It could be that your BIOS (Biostar MB) might be confused with the
Webcam since it might have a setting for "USB legacy" support. This
is usually required for USB keybaord / mouse access to thew BIOS
screens but I have noticed that sometimes the BIOS can not understand
any other device correctly.